They emphasize the need to bring together fragmented literatures on financing, payments, and health equity to inform policy decisions. The article also explores the impact of financing and provider payment models on health equity, including the expansion of programs directed at the ...
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Private equity firms have increasingly used investors’ funds to buy health care facilities and then sell them 3 to 7 years later for significant profit. Experts who areskeptical of private equity’s growing role in health carehave worried that the industry’s focus on maximizing profit comes...
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However, there is evidence showing that Health Equity Fund members still borrow to pay for healthcare. Jacobs et al. found that 83% of payment-exempted patients resorted to borrowing, on average, 3.4 times the total direct costs of the illness episode; by comparison 48% of paying patients bo...
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, health equity , medtech and health tech organizations , center for health solutions , innovation , life sciences & health care the future of health the health industry is on the cusp of a major transformation that will affect all stakeholders. incumbent players can either lead this ...
Yet several conditions should be in place for innovations like these to be implemented at scale: interoperable data infrastructure, novel equity-centered payment models and benefit designs, and innovative care models. It’s unlikely that any single stakeholder can create these conditions alone. Through...
Pegus has focused on ways to improve healthcare for medically underserved communities. “If we’re really focused on improving health equity, we actively prioritize bringing healthcare to those geographic areas. We don’t wait for something magical to happen,” Dr. Pegus told Melvin Mezue,...
impacts appear to be under-researched. This narrative overview aims to address a gap in the literature by answering research questions on what evidence exists for positive and negative outcomes of privatisation; how well societal impacts are evaluated, and the implications for health and equity. ...